- From: Marco Bleeker <marco_bleeker@hetnet.nl>
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:12:09 +0200
- To: www-talk@w3.org
- Cc: Hans de Jong <html@handleidinghtml.nl>
Hello, I am a biologist and on the internet since 1994. Now, after all this time, I am surprised that the special characters for "male" and "female" still don't work. You know, "male" is a circle with an arrow pointing out to the top right (same as the sign for the planet Mars) and "female" is a circle with a cross underneith (same as the sign for the planet Venus). While at it: for bisexual beings (such as most flowering plants) it would be nice to also have the combined sign. I have noticed that there is a whole list of mathematical signs that now work in HTML, implemented in Unicode. I have also found that the two signs I am looking for listen to Unicode 2640 and 2642. But they don't work in html... or at least not in MSIE 5.5 under Win98SE. Would other or newer browsers do better? I think there is a real need for this, and when it can be done for mathematics - please help biology too! Thanks, Marco -- Marco Bleeker, Amsterdam, NL. Please do not distribute my email address to a third party Refer to www.ecocam.com for an email form (and more)
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